“Righteous Richard” Chavarria’s wife, Lucy, has contracted cancer and will start chemotherapy on Tuesday morning. Richard has asked that we all pray for her. You all know my friend Richard from his reports at our local DMV where he has been regularly preaching for about two years. He’s also an Ambassadors’ Academy mentor. The unfortunate
Meet Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s evangelism pastor, Karl Corcoran. I met Karl in Ireland. Actually, he met me, and I wasn’t even physically there! Huh? Somehow, he saw a YouTube video I had posted called “The Drop” (see it here). It showed how you can go into an ordinary restaurant and drop tracts on tables
A construction worker was killed when a backhoe loader tipped over and struck him with its scoop at the Platinum Triangle urban village in Anaheim. Arturo Gonzalez, 34, was part of a six-man crew putting stucco on a condominium project when the machine crushed him. —L.A. Times, 7-12-08
Don’t try this at home… Due to circumstances beyond my control I literally had to preach in the street! At the recent Labor Day Fiesta Hermosa, where 100,000 people converge for a 3 day partying street festival, I had to risk life and limb while preaching the good news at the shuttle bus line. Why?
500 Questionaires
“I can’t get Jesus out of my head!”
Those were the words of a very lost, confused and suicidal young man who visited our “Free Intelligence Test” booth at the Fiesta Hermosa street fair last Labor Day weekend.
The conversation started with him coming up to me quite aggressively and stating, “Why are you doing this? No one cares. No one cares about Jesus.” He then proceeded to tell me some truly awful things that happened in his life. The statement that caught my attention was when he said “I can’t get Jesus out of my head.” He made some type of profession of faith years ago, and I believe that God was calling him back through us, here at the fair. The young man then suddenly disappeared into the crowd to get drunk.
And nearly everyone gets the three sentences in the triangles wrong when they read them. (How did you do? See below for the correct readings.)
Then we lead them into another very fun questionaire that gets people laughing, until we transition into the Gospel presentation. Ed Lee, one of our church’s evangelism leaders and an Ambassadors’ Academy mentor, said that at one point people were lined up five deep—and this is to hear the Gospel (of course, they didn’t know that they would hear it)!
We had over seventy-five volunteers man the booth. And to recruit them, I had to use strong arm tactics that the Gambino Family would have admired. Still, I knew that “non-evangelists” would get excited after they took this step of faith. Here’s one quick testimony:
At the end of the 3-day weekend, we had gone through almost 500 questionaires, and about 20,000 tracts. We preached at the bus stops to untold hundreds (see that preaching here), and many novice evangelists found out how rewarding it was to do something for God.
As Ray Comfort likes to say, “You will go out dragging your feet, but you’ll come back clicking your heels.”
Get your free down-loadable I. Q. Test tracts by clicking here.
Einstein I.Q. Test answer: “Bird in the the hand,” etc.
(Read what happened at the Memorial Day Fiesta Hermosa here.)
Here are some of the questions we use for this test (these were formerly carried by Living Waters, but are now discontinued.) Make your own surveys and see how fun it is!:
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